« `Nevrotic` Anything that departs from a loving mother's attitude towards a charming child is taken as evidence of a lack of love. These men tend to confuse their affectionate behaviour, their desire to please, with genuine love, and from then on they come to the conclusion that they are treated with the darkest injustice; imagining themselves that they are great lovers, they complain bitterly about the ingratitude of their partner. »

« Most people are not even aware of their need for conformism. They live with the illusion that they follow their own ideas and inclinations, that they are individualistic, that the opinions they have reached represent the culmination of their own reflection - and that, if their ideas are in line with those of the majority, it is a coincidence. ... But in fact people want to conform to a much higher degree than they are obliged to do, at least in Western democracies. »

« The development of man assumes his ability to transcend the narrow prison where his ego, his greed, his egotism and his separation from others maintain him, and thus to overcome his essential loneliness. This transcendence allows man to be open and connected to the world, vulnerable but aware of his identity and integrity; it also makes him able to love all that is alive, to develop his faculties in the surrounding world, and to be "interested". Overcoming greed and self-centeredness thus allows man to be rather than to have and use. »